faerie

Other forms of faerie

plural

faeries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about faerie

What does faerie mean?

faerie means "a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in faerie?

faerie has 3 syllables: fa-e-rie. The stress falls on "fa".

What is another word for faerie?

Close synonyms include fairy, faery, fay, sprite, fairyland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is faerie a common word?

faerie is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.